Maxine Hong Kingston Languages and Silences of Being Chinese-American

Sibel IRZİK

Makale detayları

Maxine Hong Kingston Languages and Silences of Being Chinese-American

Yazarlar:

Sibel IRZİK

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1995 Issue 1, pp.57-63

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/1995

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735474

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

Julia Kristeva has said that "it is only by translating the mother that we live:  orphans but creators, creators but abandoned"  181 . In these general  psychoanalytical terms, growing up is a painful movement away from the threat  that the archaic mother presents, the threat of a total absence or loss of self. It is a  liberating exile into subjectivity and language  Nikolchina 233 . I believe that the  same terms  translation, orphanage, abandonment, exile  are even more poignantly  relevant to what we might consider a secondary process or a special case of  growing up as it can be traced in the works of Maxine Hong Kingston: growing up  into the hyphenated subjectivity of a Chinese-American self and into a language  both primary and foreign, a native tongue that is different from the mother tongue.  In this modified scheme of things, the mother is not only the actual and archaic one,  but represents also a much more general sense of a lost origin that is both sought  and feared, an origin that uncomfortably brings together the figures of the mother  and the father within the more encompassing image of China. The movement away  from China is a movement away from silence into voice, from a frozen past into the  enabling openness of the present, from the erasure of self into a sense of individual  identity.

Makale detayları

Maxine Hong Kingston Languages and Silences of Being Chinese-American

Yazarlar: Sibel IRZİK

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1995 Issue 1, pp.57-63

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/1995

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735474

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Sibel IRZİK

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 1995 Issue 1, pp.57-63

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/1995

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735474

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606